Guide: WHO R&D Good Participatory Practice for COVID-19 clinical trials: a toolbox
by Mesh Editorial TeamThis toolbox was developed in 2020 for the World Health Organisation COVID-19 Research Roadmap and provides a synthesis of key action points from the WHO GPP-EP guidelines. This “how to” guide gives an overview, tips and resources and will be updated as new resources are completed and approved.
Project Report: “Nothing about us without us”: How families affected by Zika are claiming back control
by Mesh Editorial Team, Natalie HunterThis article introduces a series of videos exploring experiences of the Zika epidemic from different perspectives. Within the videos we hear from mothers of children born with microcephaly and from researchers in Brazil and the UK.
Podcast: Defined roles and Working Together: A Conversation about the Community Engagement, Communications and Social Science associated with a Vaccine Trial during the Ebola Outbreak of 2014-2016.
by Sian Aggett, Mesh Editorial TeamThis podcast features the team who led the EBOVAC-Salone study at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discussing the role community engagement played within clinical trials
eLearning: Ethics in epidemics, emergencies and disasters: Research, surveillance and patient care
by Mesh Editorial TeamThis 7 module course offers comprehensive training exploring the wide range of ethical issues faced by health professionals and policy makers working in the context of epidemics/pandemics and disaster situations, focusing primarily on the key areas of research, surveillance and patient care.
eLearning: Online training course: In the footsteps of Zika: Approaching the unknown
by Mesh Editorial TeameLearning: Free online training course: Preventing Zika
by Mesh Editorial TeamReport: Data Modeling Behaviour Change in Health Emergencies Project
by Mesh Editorial TeamReport: Modeling and measuring community engagement in health emergencies convening: Summary report
by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mesh Editorial TeamProject Report: Going Viral: The Mother of all pandemics Podcast
by Mesh Editorial Team, Dr Mark Honigsbaum & Hannah MawdsleyProject Report: More Deadly than War: Spanish Flu and the Threat of Pandemic, an exhibition at Torquay Museum, UK
by Mesh Editorial TeamProject Report: An Exploration of the Lived Experience of African Journalists during the 2014 Ebola Crisis
by World Federation of Science Journalists, Mesh Editorial TeamLiterature: The Legacy of Zika in Brazil: Women, Needs and Rights
by Debora Diniz, Mesh Editorial TeamEvent: Showcase 2019 - International Society of Neglected Tropical Diseases Festival
by Mesh Editorial TeamProject Report: World Mosquito Day Community Festival to raise awareness of mosquito vectors in local communities
by Leonardo Ortega-López, Mesh Editorial TeamRepository: Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
by Mesh Editorial TeamGuidelines: Risk communication and community engagement for Zika virus prevention and control
by Mesh Editorial TeamAcademic Literature: 'Super Special Moms': Grassroots, social media support group aids the response to congenital Zika syndrome
by Mesh Editorial TeamEvent: The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases Festival
by Mesh Editorial TeamAcademic Literature: Ethics of Randomized Trials in a Public Health Emergency
by London, A. J., et al 2018, Mesh Editorial TeamThis paper briefly summarises the discussion of a committee which aimed to assess clinical trials conducted in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia during the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Literature: From ‘Trial Community’ to ‘Experimental Publics’: How Clinical Research Shapes Public Participation
by C. Montgomery & R. Pool, Mesh Editorial TeamThis article argues for a conceptual shift away from the static, singular term ‘trial community’ towards ‘experimental publics’. The authors observe that the term ‘community’ is often employed uncritically and assumes that ‘communities’ pre-exist research; that they are timeless and undifferentiated wholes. ‘Experimental publics’, by contrast, are dynamic, multiple, and impermanent in nature.
LITERATURE: Engaging 'Communities': Anthropological Insights from the West African Ebola Epidemic
by A. Wilkinson, M. Parker, F. Martineau, and M. Leach, Mesh Editorial TeamThis article, by Wilkinson et al. 2017, deconstructs notions of 'community', and the ways it is conceptualised and understood, in order to critically reflect upon methods of engaging 'communities' during the west African Ebola epidemic in 2014.
Article: Evaluating public communication of science and technology: The case of the Ebola virus
by Mesh Editorial TeamThis article analyses media coverage and public communications over the time of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa 2013-2016 with a focus on the interations between scientifically grounded information and messages from cultural and religious actors.
A Case Study: In 2012 the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) was awarded £29,999 from the Wellcome Trust International Engagement Awards over three years to implement an engagement project alongside its Vietnam Initiative on Zoonotic Infections (VIZIONS). The project uses simple digital storytelling techniques to bring to the surface the participants’ ideas about personal and public risk and perceptions of disease and transmission.